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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class introduces students to the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize case studies in very different settings (a nuclear weapons laboratory, a cattle-herding society of the Sudan, and a Jewish elder center in Los Angeles). Although some of the results and conclusions of anthropology will be discussed, e
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- methods
- culture
- case studies
- nuclear weapons laboratory
- cattle-herding
- society
- sudan
- jewish elder center
- los angeles
- cultural difference
- fieldwork
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Spiritual, magical, and "occult" aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic, ritual curing, trance, spirit possession, sorcery, and accusations of witchcraft. Material drawn from traditional nonwestern societies, medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and contemporary North America.
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Human beings are symbol-making as well as tool-making animals. We understand our world and shape our lives in large part by assigning meanings to objects, beings, and persons; by connecting things together in symbolic patterns; and by creating elaborate forms of symbolic action and narrative. In this introductory subject we consider how sym
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- anthropology
- anthropology
- myth
- ritual
- symbolism
- animals
- symbolic system
- meaning
- life cycle
- metaphor
- figurative language
- human body
- cosmology
- magic
- narrative
- mythology
- patterns
- culture
- sign
- tropes
- classification
- interpretation
- folktale
- power
- passage
- persuasion
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Still photography, a practice and form of expression that has worked its way into every facet of social life and every culture in the world, is considered here from the perspectives of history and social science. We will discuss the uses and functions of pictures; how they are to be understood and interpreted; whether they have clear-cut co
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- anthropology
- photography
- anthropology
- culture
- subject and treatment of image
- art
- ethnographic documentation
- ethnography
- documentary
- taking pictures
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In this course the conquest and colonization of the Americas is considered, with special attention to the struggles of native peoples in Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Panama, and colonial New England. In two segments of the course-one devoted to the Jesuit missionization of the Huron in the 1630s, the other to struggles between the government
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- anthropology
- history
- cultural anthropology
- conquest
- colonization
- americas
- native people
- guatemala
- canada
- brazil
- panama
- colonial new england
- jesuit
- mission
- huron
- seventeenth century
- politics
- kuna
- twentieth century
- conflict
- europe
- indian
- native americans
- missions
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